Pirates of Silicon Valley

i thought it was ok for a movie from tnt
i did tape it (then they played it over & over again)so i could watch it again.
btw,they make a card for the mac called virtual pc so you can run windows too.

All I have to say is this movie could not possibly tell the whole tale. Nevertheless, people seem to forget that Xerox practically GAVE Apple the GUI. If accepting a gift is stealing then steal on! Xerox was given shares of Apple for the trade. Correct me if I am wrong.

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I'm just glad it showed Microsoft for the bloodsuckers they are.

Use LinuX people..less crashes less bugs..better preformance...

I loved the movie, although I thought it should have been a three night miniseries. They left out a LOT.

Some food for thought:

Novell took Xerox's XPS protocol for their IPX stack. Why does Xerox always seem to let themselves get ripped off? Is it because they are content being copier manufacturers? If IBM had been content making typewriters, we might all be using Macs. Or Apple IIs. Without IBM's competition, Apple may have never leapt into the Macintosh field.

I remember watching the 1984 ad during the Superbowl. I got chills.

My first computer was an Atari 800. They took a Motorola chipset and took the graphics processing off the CPU and put it in a separate chipset made of three chips. Sounds a bit like MMX instructions, no? Only in reverse (-:

Final thought: If IBM had not made MCA a closed architecture, OS/2 would be the dominant desktop OS today, and Microsoft would still be kissing their butt. But they'd also be in court with the DOJ in an Antitrust suit. Hmm, maybe Big Blue isn't all that dumb after all! (-:

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A real old post saying scott only has about 200posts..heheh

Anyways while we are on the subject, how did everyone think of that Antitrust movie? I havent seen it myself yet, but have heard a little about it.

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Pirates of Silcon Valley? didn't get to see that here in canada wish i could find it online somewhere...

Antitrust kicks *** if you are into the whole open source (Linux) vs. Empire (m$) sorta deal. Great storyline, although it is kind of confusing..but it is true..


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for starters those who do not learn theiur history are doomed to repaeat it.
for enders, Long live Linux.
also i thought only registered users could post?
where did all these freaks come from?
/SLK

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It's a Jeep thing you wouldn't understand.

Good concept, the movie, but I thought it kinda sucked......I believe that it probably did happen that way, I just thought the movie could have been done better.....oh well.

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Ever stop to think....and forget to start again?

The movie was allright, kinda boring cause I knew the history. <rant>And in reference to the many above posts the entire "unregistered" concept should be done away with. It's getting annoying to see 'Microsoft sux' as the whole content of the message. If you have reasoning to back up that kind of statement, I'm game, if you don't, your just another part of the ignorant mass known as society-at-large. And the entire point of the this, was to find out what was the opinion of the movie, not whether Microsoft sux.</rant> https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Life isn't one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and over.

!!!!! I can't beleive we're still witnessing the obviously never-ending "Stealing" of ideas !!!!!!

Ok let's put this staight :

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE

Wich one of these 3 surprisingly simple words don't you guys understand ???

Do you really think that Anybody stole from anybody ??? The currect Pc (read:electrical entertaining expensive device) NEEDs an Os that's easy to use and versatile.

Ok, i'll take you guys on a rant for something : What would you do if you'd write an Os ??? Basing on all of your stealing rants... you wouldn't be allowed Mice, you wouldn't be allowed to used the monitor for displaying square-things taht you can click... since the idea has already been used... what's left ???

Tell me how john's software would be without using GUI ??? Just imagine what the entire industry would be like if we couldn't be inspired ...
(no, i don't consider mac's GUI identical to Win's, if you do... look again)

When GUI rolls over... it's gonna be time for PUI (Pluggable-User-Interface) :^)

Wouldn't a little RJ-45 be nice on your shoulder ?

And then... everybody will be using the same ways... : that's called evolution https://forums.windrivers.com/

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Who am I ? I was the next door kid's imaginary friend.

Haven't seen it never heard anything good about it.

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I thought it was a good movie...I'm not going to cry about Bill Gates like many people tend to do.

Instead of bashing Bill, what about Steve Jobs?

Was it just me or did this movie make him seem like a total jackass?

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"then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, is just a freight train coming your way..."

I have the 3-part series called triumph of the nerds, narrated by Robert Cringley sp?
very good account of the PC history, way better than pirates of silicon valley https://forums.windrivers.com/

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I'm on the right track but the wrong train...or is it the right train but wrong track ?

Actually, what has always made me wonder is the Altaire. Here is this guy who decides to build this thing but doesn't know how to make it run, but thinks he has something that doesn't do anything, and yet this "other guy" BG finds out about this thing that doesn't do anything and "discovers" something that will make it do something.

Everybody wants to bash Gates and Jobs, and yet when you really think about what the mindset was and what technology was back then, they really did some amazing stuff. For those two to have the visions that made the PC possible today is really an amazing thing.

Hey, if it were simple, everybody would have done it.



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I know this was just posted 2 months ago!
It was slow, The actors sucked ! ( Mr. Hall should have retired after 16 candles) Not a true docu. But on the other hand I did watch the whole movie! https://forums.windrivers.com/
Wow it just came to me the kid from Austrlia bitched about the movie it was on pay per view over there! And he thought it sucked!
OOPS Sorry Scott forgot it was your post!
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